EPISODE 110: Designer Roundtable

In which Eddy talks with Danielle Lauzon, Monica Speca, and Travis Legge about the nitty-gritty of game design.

• Bad jokes
• “Fluff” and “crunch”
• D&D is a game for kicking in monsters and looting doors
• What makes a good mechanic?
• Powered by the Apocalypse
• Testing the design
• Designing for D&D 5e
• Designing for Exalted
• The “commoner railgun”
• GNS Theory
• Designing for Storypath
• Shiny math rocks and VTTs
• Calvinball the RPG
• One cool design
• What we’re working on

LINKS

• Bonus Experience: https://bxpcast.com/
• BXP Ep “Mechanics are Inevitable”: http://misdirectedmark.com/2020/05/26/bxp-3×06-mechanics-are-inevitable/
• Powered by the Apocalypse: http://apocalypse-world.com/pbta/